Welcome To My WILDflower Designs

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Creating and Promoting Fabric Design and Fiber Art

Hi! My name is Katherine Sands and I am a fabric designer and fiber artist residing in southern Illinois. I like to dye and paint and discharge fabrics and then take them to the next level, creating other layers of design. I then take these fabrics and use them as the base layer for my art. My goal is to create "art cloth" and build my finished product from that. My philosophy about what I do is this: I am ever learning, ever the student...but able to teach and help others learn too, all while having a great time! What’s better than that?

On my site you will find fiber art pieces for sale, hand dyed cottons, and Shiva oil paintstiks and accessory products, such as rubbing plates, stencil brushes and the Grip 'N Grip rubber craft mat, as well as Dyer's Cloth by James Thompson.

Site Updates at My WILDflower Designs

See small fiber art pieces in Gallery 2. More products have been listed on the Paintstiks page and new rubbing plates are available on the Rubbing Plates page. On the Favorite Links page I share some of my favorite artists' blogs as well as mine! Check out the What's New page whenever you come here to see what new things are being added. Read my blog at www.katherinesands.com where I share weekly new explorations and discoveries in surface design and fiber art techniques.

Art Cloth: Trees

Below: Labuk's Gift - shown at the 2008 World Orchid Conference, Miami , FL

Art On This Page

In the upper right is "Art Cloth: Trees". It measure 17" x 16" and is screened with acrylic paint on hand dyed cotton and completed with a photo transfer on silk organza. It is currently at the Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, IN. The lower one is "Labuk's Gift", a piece made for the World Orchid Show in Miami. It is 40" x 39" and the price is $1200.

 

 

 

 

 

All images on this site are copyrighted© by Katherine Sands. Absolutely no reproduction in any form is permitted. Copyrighted 2008 

 

 

 

 

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